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Fashion: Simplified clothing, minimum of material that moves well.
Cender fairness issues: National Women’s Party
Lifestyle: Education being regarded as necessary.
Kindergarten finally accepted in all Public schools by the National Congress Of Mothers & Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA)
New idea of new division of schools turned into grammar schools and junior high schools.
Dancing extremely popular, in summer you could usually find a dance every night of the week.
Balls were soon going to be replaced by informal dances and nightclubs in the 1920s.
Art:
Lewis Hine's photographs in sweatshops leads to child labor laws in30 states, it also made photographers social change advocates.
James Van Der Zee opens a photography studio in Harlem and documents 50 years of his neighbors.
The screens first sex symbol was Theda Bara, her name was an anagram for Arab Death, but she really was
Theodosia Goodman. Who was a Jewish tailor's daughter from Ohio.
1910 Mark twain dies.
Trench warfare claims writers and poets lives, such as: Wilfrid Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siefried Sassoon and Joyce Kilmer.
Stars and Stripes is founded in 1918
America's first tabloid is founded in 1917, the New York Daily News.
sfgate.com
Other:
1910:
Caruso sings in the first radio broadcast in New York
Electricity used as anesthetic to amputate man's toes.
X-ray machine used to find and remove a nail from a boy's lung.Boy Scout Idea from Britain Moves to the U.S.
Pope Pius X refuses audience to Methodist Charles Fairbanks.
King Edward VII Dies of pneumonia.
O. Henry dies of complication of diseases.
Wilslow Homer dies at age 74.
Thomas Ala Edison creates the "kinetophone" which is a combination of a camera and a phonograph. His idea was to record sound and film together.
Florence Nightingale died at age 90.
Founder of the Red Cross dies, Jean Henry Dunant.
Wassiliy Kadinsky, father of abstract art.
1911:
First time a cancerous tumor has been shown to be cause by a virus.
Hope Diamond bought for $300,000
President of Mexico Quits, rebels win.
40,000 to 60,000 supported of women’s suffrage march in London.
Mona Lisa is stolen.
The first U.S. Women gains a polot's license, Harriet Quimby.
Apollinarie arrested for theft of the Mona Lisa.
Chevrolet automobile line is formed by Louis Chevrolet.
Madam Curie wins her Second Nobel Prize.
1912:
Titanic strikes an iceberg, and sinks. 1,595 Drown.
Salvation Army's Founder dies at age 83.
French doctor, Dr. Gaston Odin, grows and isolates a microbe of cancer which was said to lead to a vaccine of cancer.
An error helps the Boston White Soxs win over the New York Giants in the World Series.
Nefertiti's Statue is discovered in Egypt
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